Joanna Baillie

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Joanna Baillie

Joanna Baillie (* 11. September 1762 in Bothwell at Glasgow ; † 23. February 1851 in Hampstead ) was a British poet of romance .

Life

During her lifetime she was best known for her dramas , which were particularly successful as reading dramas , as they are not well suited for performance due to their heaviness in dialogue. Baillie also wrote poetry, which is as popular today as her dramas.

Her first independent publication was the volume of poems Poems: Wherein it is Attempted to Describe Certain Views of Nature and of Rustic Manners (1790). Although the anonymously published volume of poetry received positive reviews from the critics, it did not sell well, which is why Baillie included most of the poems again in her later volume of poetry, Fugitive Verses (1840).

The band A Series of Plays in Which It Is Attempted to Delineate the Stronger Passions of the Mind (London 1798) was more of a psychological order and moralizing dialogue as a real drama; but the pieces were so well received that the work was continued in 1802 and 1812 with a second and third volume. The first volume contains a programmatic introduction, the "Introductory Discourse", in which Baillie explains her concept of poetry.

Also published: “Miscellaneous Plays” (London 1804) and later “Dramas” (1836, 3 vols.).

The tragedy "The Family Legend" (1810) takes place in the Scottish Highlands and was praised by Sir Walter Scott , with whom the poet had been friends since 1806.

The Metrical Legends of Exalted Characters (1821) contain three longer narrative poems telling the life stories of William Wallace, Christopher Columbus and Lady Griseld Baillie, as well as four shorter poems.

Baillie spent most of her later life in seclusion in Hampstead near London and engaged in poor relief, which earned her the name "Lady Bountiful".

She died shortly after the publication of her work The Dramatic and Poetical Works (London 1851).

Fonts

  • The Dramatic and Poetical Works (1851) . Reprint [facsimile edition]: Hildesheim / New York: Georg Olms 1976.
  • The Selected Poems of Joanna Baillie 1762-1851 . Edited by Jennifer Breen. Manchester: Manchester University Press 1999.

literature

  • Jennifer Breen: Introduction . In: Jennifer Breen (Ed.): The Selected Poems of Joanna Baillie 1762-1851 . Manchester University Press, Manchester 1999, pp. 1-25.
  • William D. Brewer: Joanna Baillie and Lord Byron . In: Keats-Shelley Journal: Keats, Shelley, Byron, Hunt, and Their Circles , 44, 1995, pp. 165-181.
  • Ken A. Bugajski: Joanna Baillie. An Annotated Bibliography . In: Romanticism on the Net , November 12, 1998.
  • Catherine B. Burroughs: Joanna Baillie's Poetic Aesthetic: Passion and 'the Plain Order of Things' . In: Stephen C. Behrendt, Harriet Kramer Linkin (Ed.): Approaches to Teaching British Women Poets of the Romantic Period . Modern Language Association of America, New York NY 1997, pp. 135-140.
  • Helene von Druskowitz : Three English poets . (Joanna Baillie, Elizabeth Barrett Browning , George Eliot ): Essay. Robert Oppenheim, Berlin 1885 ( Austrian Literature Online )
  • Amanda Gilroy: From Here to Alterity: The Geography of Femininity in the Poetry of Joanna Baillie . In: Douglas Gifford, Dorothy McMillan (Eds.): A History of Scottish Women's Writing . Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh 1997, pp. 143-157.
  • Marjean D. Purinton: Revising Romanticism by Inscripting Women Playwrights . In: Romanticism on the Net , November 12, 1998.
  • Jonathan Wordsworth: Joanna Baillie . In: Friend: Comment on Romanticism , 1, 1990, pp. 30-33.
  • Baillie, Joanna . In: Encyclopædia Britannica . 11th edition. tape 3 : Austria - Bisectrix . London 1910, p. 219 (English, full text [ Wikisource ]).

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personal data
SURNAME Baillie, Joanna
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British romantic poet
DATE OF BIRTH September 11, 1762
PLACE OF BIRTH Bothwell (Scotland) near Glasgow
DATE OF DEATH February 23, 1851
Place of death Hampstead